jimmy is the reason i got into the pumpkins. i became so infatuated with his playing when i was young that i would listen to other bands and and say 'this would be better if jimmy played it.' i even began to hate a lot of music because the drumming was sub-par.

i started writing music in the hopes that i could find a drummer that would have as much of an impact as jimmy had on the pumpkins. writing is so much easier when you've got someone that good.

waltermcphilp

01-15-2008, 03:54 PM

IT"S IT"S IT"S A BALL ROOM BLITZ!

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01-15-2008, 06:22 PM

i started writing music in the hopes that i could find a drummer that would have as much of an impact as jimmy had on the pumpkins.

so did you find one?

SlingeroGuitaro

01-15-2008, 06:28 PM

i found a guy more like john bonham. he is really good but not nearly as exciting to me

suncrashesdown

01-15-2008, 06:49 PM

show your love ballroom blitz style.

jimmy is the reason i got into the pumpkins. i became so infatuated with his playing when i was young that i would listen to other bands and and say 'this would be better if jimmy played it.' i even began to hate a lot of music because the drumming was sub-par.

i started writing music in the hopes that i could find a drummer that would have as much of an impact as jimmy had on the pumpkins. writing is so much easier when you've got someone that good.

I've been writing music and programming drum tracks as if someone as good as Jimmy Chamberlin were my drummer, which really backed me into a corner trying to find somebody who can actually play this shit. I've been finding out the hard way most available drummers play at about the equivalent "power and barre chord" level to us guitarists. THese guys can't even keep time on the left foot while they do anything else. Shameful.

ciGarski

01-15-2008, 07:41 PM

adore.

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01-15-2008, 08:19 PM

I've been writing music and programming drum tracks as if someone as good as Jimmy Chamberlin were my drummer, which really backed me into a corner trying to find somebody who can actually play this shit. I've been finding out the hard way most available drummers play at about the equivalent "power and barre chord" level to us guitarists. THese guys can't even keep time on the left foot while they do anything else. Shameful.

same here. thankfully i've got a kit and have developed a very jimmyesque style of drumming, so i'm hoping that if i can't quite play on my own stuff i'll at least be able to get to the level of ability where i can show another drummer how its done.

Cool, I won't tell. :) God, this banning threat sure sucks all the fun outta the threads. I loved reading your banter. Anyway, I read somewhere that Jimmy is the heart of the band, while Billy is the mind. Something about the heart pumping blood so the mind can function and get inspired, or similar. I thought it was a beautiful analogy. And true!

SlingeroGuitaro

01-15-2008, 09:15 PM

did it mention the mind giving shitty ideas to the heart?

flyfire

01-15-2008, 09:23 PM

bands with weak drummers aren't really bands at all. Totally agree - without Jimmy's drumming pumpkins would be so much less of a band.

ciGarski

01-15-2008, 09:32 PM

adore.

flyfire

01-15-2008, 09:35 PM

yeah okay, agreed. but with adore the abscence of Jimmy's was so marked that the record is such a point of difference.

flyfire

01-15-2008, 09:37 PM

I guess what I'm saying is I would prefer adore with Jimmy.

ciGarski

01-15-2008, 09:38 PM

jimmy's too much of a presence for an album like that.

flyfire

01-15-2008, 09:46 PM

yeah and that's why I'd want to what he would have done differently. This of course is moot beacuse then we wouldn't have the aadore we have now.

SlingeroGuitaro

01-15-2008, 09:48 PM

but he plays the adore songs so perfect... get it?

i mean live especially. perfect with that tambourine of his. classic.

flyfire

01-15-2008, 09:55 PM

got it :)

tambourine is so hard to get right though, it's a very fine line between complementing the other instruments/voice and just cringeworthy.

SlingeroGuitaro

01-15-2008, 10:03 PM

my comment was in response to ciGarski, actually. i think you and i would agree on the subject.

speaking of which, i pulled the garski trick in bed last night :D

flyfire

01-15-2008, 10:14 PM

eh yeah, I shouldn't switch between threads so quickly.

ciGarski

01-15-2008, 10:44 PM

speaking of which, i pulled the garski trick in bed last night :D

:eek: no way dude! bring it to the gen board so we don't get banned

loser2d

01-15-2008, 11:01 PM

sucks that the heart of the band has a weak heart

ciGarski

01-15-2008, 11:11 PM

good call loser.

Mayfuck

01-15-2008, 11:17 PM

lets see your penis!

cork_soaker

01-15-2008, 11:17 PM

this fanboy is rock hard

wilch

01-16-2008, 12:37 AM

lets see your penis!

so i guess this is gonna be another "post a picture of your dangle" thread